Dear Shippers.....

They're right there is a shortage, but they don't say the whole story. There is a shortage of quality trucks. We see the bottom feeders everyday. They are leaking, duct taped, bailing twined together, missing parts and pieces. These are usually the ones hauling the cheap. We know this because they can't afford to fix their equipment. We've been talking about this rate problem as long as I've been out here (2 decades) and they were talking about it before I got here. But I've come to the conclusion. We are all insane. Truckers. Because we keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. No one wants to strike, no one wants to stop running, no one wants cheap freight, everyone wants change though

You hit the nail on the head, but let me expand, the disease has now spread from the trucks to their support mechanisms, first it was the trucks, then the truck washes started closing, next it was the parts shops, Wheelco, fleet pride, Allstate, etc nobody open on the weekends anymore or after 6pm in most cases, then the repair shops stopped working on weekends when the trucks are home and could be fixed without added down time, now most shops are eliminating their night shifts, bankers hours only, so you now have to pull the trucks down and miss a entire week of work to do repairs that used to be done on the fly, when I first started trucking many were open 24-7, but now bankers hours only, in every case they say they can’t find anyone willing to work for the wages being offered, the whole supply chain is in mothballs and everyone is in denial, all they can do is run around and parrot talking points fed to them by talk radio, the entire industry are victims of mind control and don’t know it!